Farm gate



Patented Mar. 27, 1923.

UNITED STATES* oHAsnfConvIaLloF soU'rH CHARLESTON, oHIo. i

' FARM GATE.

Appiieaffionnled september 2e, 1921. `serial No. 503,343.l

To all 'whom t concern.' A Be it known that I, CHASE CoLvrN, a citi'- zen-of the lUnited States, residing at Southy Charleston, in the county of Clark and State l of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FarmvGates, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates t0v improvements in gates of the kind which swinghorizontally in opening or closing. An object-of my invention is to'provide an improved form of angle-iron upright for the ends of the gate of a character whichv snugly t the angle-iron upright at the hinge end of the gate but also snugly engage i.

the adjacent portion of the woodenlongitudinal rails; a further object in this connection being'to so construct `the hingevmem-I bers that the upper one will serve as a point of attachment for the usual brace bars employed to prevent the gate from sagging.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the accompanying 'description and claims.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevation ot a gate em# bodying my improvements.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section throughthe gate hinge members.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged side elevation otra portion of the gate and one of the hinges.

manner of releasing the locks for the hinges.

Fig. 6 is another side elevation ot thel hinge lock showing the same in complete releasing position and the hinge lifted from` the pintle.

Fig. 7 is a section on the line (147 of Fie'. f

Ieferring'to the drawings, 1 represents the longitudinal wooden railsof the gate,

having their intermediateportions connected together by two upright bars of any suitable construction and also have their ends connected by uprights,"the peculiar construction of which forms one of the wooden rails Vof the gate by the employment v attachment for barbed wire 6.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation illustrating the features of invention. vIfo-rm' eachof p theendv uprights off two angle-iron bars'of standard construction, the wings 3 `and 4 of whichoverla'p and abut the ends of the V`re--rV i I.

epeeave miie. 1 While the Winge se' andre of the barsare litted to the sides of ithe'lrail endsand clamped thereto by; bolts 5. The slde wing tuis, however, less inv'width than A stand flush with a perpendicular plane arv ranged at' right angles *tol said transverse alignment.

wings, oril ini TheQangle-iron formed by the 4 and I ..4a terminates flushwith'the upperedge' of the top rail 1, while the other angle-ironis projected abovev the top edge-of the Vupper rail a suitable distance-fto-providea Each of the yhinges torthe gate consists of two clamping members 7 and-8; preferapointot bly of cast metal cored out'tov provide, when placedgtog'ether, a roundfpintle 'openingv9-,

webs 10 having a square opening11,' a rec- Q tangular .recess 12 otl a size equal* to the-V outsi'degdmiensionsof the angle "irons, and

olset portions 13 having al pairot ears 14. f These clamping members, o-whichithere are two pairs, are connectedfto :the upper and lower rails of the gate by bolts 15 which pass through'the ears 14 and therail 1 and also by one of the bolts 5 lwhich passes throughslotted openings 16 in thev clamping members and other openings formed in the angle iron members and the wooden rail 1.

An additional bolt 17 is alsopassedthroughv the openings 18 inl thel clamping members intermediate the openings 9 and 11.. Thev i upper ends of the braces 19which are fem- Y ployed to keep the gate tromv sagging g may be conveniently attached to oneof the bolts 15. By reason of the offset end portionsllS ofthe clamping -members,' it will be seen- .u that'these members whenin position, not only serve to tightly 'hug the angle irons`,.

but also arepermitted to tightly clamp the wooden barjust forward of thepangle-iron members. reason of the fact that the 'forwardedges of thewings SzL and 4a of the angle-bars are in alignment described'. these edges are pere AIt ,will also be seen that by* los;

mitted to vlie closely adjacent the offset por,-

tions 13 so that there will be no intervening end in ahoolnshaped portion 25 which has a nut 26 preferably threaded on its end. rEhe vertical portion 22 is inserted in the square opening ll, with the hook-shaped portion thereof at the lower' end and its head at the upper end. The squared portion 23 will snugly it the squared opening l1 in the webs l() to prevent the lock from turning and thereby hold it in the locking position shown in Fig. 4, with the nut beneath the pintle portion. The portion 22, however, is round in cross/section so that when the lock is raised to the position shown in Fig. 5 it may be turned at right-angles or to the position shown in Fig. G, thus freeing the same from the under side of the pintle thereby permitting the gate to be raised from the pintles. tly the peculiar construction of this lock, the gate may be lifted from the hinge pint-les while in closed position, which is very desirable when the gate is banked by snow or when it cannot otherwise be freely swung upon its hinges.

Referring to Figs. l and 7, 27 represents a latch bar which is slidably mounted in slots'cut in the wings 3 and 4 of the forward upright angle-irons, and has pivotally connected therewith as at 28a a loop 28, the free ends ofwhich are pivotally connected to'one of the longitudinal -bars l by the bolt 29.

verse alignment with each other and extendf ing to within close proximity to the shoul ders formed by the offsets of said clamps,

bolts projecting through said clamps, up-k right and bar in different longitudinal planes, and a brace for said gate having a connection with one of said bolts at its upper end and with oneof lthe longitudinal bars at its lower end.

2. In a. gate structure, the combination, with a series of longitudinal bars, of an upright formed of two angle-iron members of standard sha-pe placed togetherl with two of the wings overlapping and abutting lthe ends of said bars with the other wings lying parallel to and enclosingvthe sides of said bars near the ends thereof, anda pair of clamps secured to said angle irons, each pair of said clampsbeing also secured to one of said bars, the clamps of each pair being formed with parallel inner faces fitted snugly to the outer faces of the t ngle-irons and also with parallel offset inner faces fitted snugly to the sides. of the correspond-x ing bar with the shoulders forint-zdV by the offsets lying iii comparatively closel proximity to the vertical edges of the angleirons.

my hand this 20th day of September' 1921..

, CHASE COLVIN.

In testimony whereof, l have hereunto set 

